The short days and dark nights leading up to the Winter Solstice provide a fertile ground for inspiration.

The cold hard ground of winter will soon send new roots downward and tendrils upward toward the light and nourishment those seeds somehow know where to find.

If you’re a woman in the third third of life, you just might be tempted to respond to your inner sparks with a…

In it for the long haul…

Today in my weekly sword class we had a guest teacher. He’s a spry 90-year-old man who’s been doing this for decades.

I’m in the right place.

I don’t swing my sword around because I imagine I’m going to have to use it in combat. …

Sometimes it’s easy to remember I have a choice.

And sometimes I just can’t see beyond the black cloud.

The black cloud created by me.

I’ve been stomping around wearing a black cloud like a hat for a long day now.

Same old same old. When I tune into radio…

One way to move from desire to actual doing is to speak life into something.

You’ve seen this in your life, right? Share your crazy-audacious dream with someone you trust and watch it expand and take life.

I’m doing that very thing — building, expanding, growing; turning my vision into a thing, a place where women in the third third of life can find flow…

I take none of my mobility for granted.

Every day that I’m on my feet is a gift.

I’ve been immobilized. If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been sat down or laid flat in a variety of ways. Sometimes for weeks. I was starting to feel like I had a condition I had to be…

If you asked me to describe five top qualities of a lifelong learner, of a woman in the third third of life who’s in her life, I don’t think I’d be able to think of five better words.

Tolerant. Disinterested. Amused. Kindhearted. Dignified.

Today I attended one of Rupert Spira’s webinar. (If you’re unfamiliar with…

It’s a month since my sister Marcia died.

I wasn’t raised to be aware of this sacred time, the first month after a loss. But I love how time is set aside, in Judaism — set aside to allow one to be with the grief and the turning of life’s poignant pages. …

2020’s been quite a year.

On this Winter Solstice, let’s take a moment together to celebrate how we’ve responded and adapted through this unusual year. There’s been so much opportunity to let go and grow, right?

Resilience isn’t an option; it’s a requirement, on the daily.

• Finding new comforts as the old familiar ones became…